Kraft Heinz announced on Tuesday that by the end of 2027 it will remove all FD & C artificial dyes from his American portfolio, in the midst of the pressure of the Trump administration to abolish artificial colors from the food supply of the country.
Kraft, one of the largest manufacturers of food and drinks in North America, also said that it would not launch new products in the US with artificial colors, immediately in force. Kraft Heinz said that it works together with licensees of his brands to encourage them to remove artificial colors, which are often called FD & C colors because they can also be used in medicines and cosmetics and are subject to a strict approval system under the federal food and cosmetic operation (FD & C Act).
“The vast majority of our products use natural or no colors, and we have been traveling to reduce our use of FD & C colors in the rest of our portfolio,” said Pedro Navio, president of Kraft Heinz of North America, in a statement.
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Navio said that the well -known tomato ketchup of the company has never absorbed artificial dyes, and notes that the red color comes from the tomatoes with which it was made. In 2016, however, the company removed artificial colors, preservatives and flavors from its Kraft Mac & Cheese.
Kraft Heinz said that in 2027 it will remove all color additives from its products. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
Health and Human Services -Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has his efforts aimed at cutting out the colors since he was sworn in the office earlier this year.
“For too long, some food producers feed on American petroleum-based chemicals without their knowledge or permission,” Kennedy said in a statement in April. “These poisonous connections do not offer a nutritional advantage and form real, measurable hazards for the health and development of our children.”
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved seven certified color additives for use in food, six of which were approved in 1931. But in April the FDA announced plans to work with the industry to FD & C Green No. 3, FD & C Red No. 40, FD & C Yellow No. 5, FD & C Geel No. 6, FD & C Blue No. 2 to eliminate by the end of the end of the end of the end of the end of the end of the end of the end of the end of the end of the food supply.
Synthetic food paint, red no. 3, was already forbidden in food and drugs earlier this year.
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In January the issue of color additives came into the picture when the FDA said that it ordered the authorization to use Red No. 3 in te trekken-ook bekend als erythrosine en geeft bepaalde voedingsmiddelen en drankjes een heldere, kersen-rode kleur-nadat het een verzoekschrift heeft beoordeeld dat ruzie heeft aangedaan, onder een regel genaamd de Delaney-clausule, de FDA in het kanker van de Delane, de FDA in een federale niveau in een federaal niveau in een federale niveau in een federale niveau in een federale niveau in een federale niveau in een Federal level in a federal level in a federal level of a federal level in a federal level of federal animals.
In 2016, the company removed artificial colors, preservatives and flavors from its Kraft Mac & Cheese. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images / Getty images)
The synthetic dye is already forbidden in the European Union. For more than three decades it has also been forbidden in cosmetics and current medicines due to data that show that it has been associated With carcinogenity of animals.
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As part of the FDA ruling, food manufacturers FD&C Rood No. 3 had to remove from their products by January 15, 2027. Drug manufacturers will have until January 2028 to do this.
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Kraft Heinz said it used artificial colors in a “small number of” products that the “long -term approval history” gave by the FDA.
